From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx133.postini.com [74.125.245.133]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7C876B0089 for ; Fri, 24 May 2013 07:14:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 12:14:33 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] mm: hugetlb: Copy general hugetlb code from x86 to mm. Message-ID: <20130524111433.GF18272@arm.com> References: <1369328878-11706-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> <1369328878-11706-4-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1369328878-11706-4-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Steve Capper Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Michal Hocko , Ken Chen , Mel Gorman , Will Deacon , "patches@linaro.org" On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:07:50PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: > The huge_pte_alloc, huge_pte_offset and follow_huge_p[mu]d > functions in x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c do not rely on any architecture > specific knowledge other than the fact that pmds and puds can be > treated as huge ptes. > > To allow other architectures to use this code (and reduce the need > for code duplication), this patch copies these functions into mm, > replaces the use of pud_large with pud_huge and provides a config > flag to activate them: > CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB > > If CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE is also active then the > huge_pmd_share code will be called by huge_pte_alloc (othewise we > call pmd_alloc and skip the sharing code). > > Signed-off-by: Steve Capper Acked-by: Catalin Marinas -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org